Abhijit Phanse  
Founder, President and Chief Operations Officer – Scintera Networks, Inc.

Abhijit Phanse was Scintera’s founding CEO and grew the Company to develop its Advanced Signal Processing Platform (ASPP®) technology and become a leader in multi Gigabit signal processors. Since February 2006, Abhijit has assumed the role of president and chief operating officer.

Abhijit has over 12 years of broad range semiconductor experience in the development and successful commercialization of solutions for high speed Communication and Networking applications. Prior to co-founding Scintera in August 2001, Abhijit led the development of three generations of successful Ethernet technologies and products at National Semiconductor - 100M Ethernet, 1000 Base-T Gigabit Ethernet, and 10 Gigabit Ethernet. He has played a defining role in the development of the IEEE Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet Standards. He was instrumental in starting the efforts within the IEEE to incorporate intelligent electronic signal processing solutions at 10G for enabling cost effective upgrades to enterprise networks. Abhijit has over twelve international publications and holds over thirty patents. He holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Central Florida and a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and is a Member of the IEEE.